A nonagenarian's vehicle to expound at nonspecific intervals on his opinions regarding politics-local to international, health care, life,society,and perhaps religion plus periodic vignettes about Plainfield N.J.
In addition to "blowing off",I am enjoying a second career as an amateur public advocate.

Friday, August 29, 2014

I am sure that the word is out that the Mayor has vetoed the
“Land Grab Ordinance” Known as “City Lot 9+”.There is a proposed resolution to override the veto on the Agenda Fixing
Session’s menu.

The Mayor’s veto contained 16 reasons why it was
unacceptable. Most of them this Council will dismiss as verbiage or garbage.
However the reference to NJSA 40:12-20 which both the present Corporation
Counsel and the previous one found not to be applicable as quoted in the Ordinance
will be hard to ignore by people without any knowledge of the law.

How the Council reacts and if here is any retaliatory
reaction against the Mayor’s appointment requests or the proposed Resolution
granting Proctor a residency waiver will be awaited.

This
afternoon/evening we shall receive a copy of the agenda for TUESDAY”S Agenda
Fixing session. With luck that will mean a visit to the Library Saturday
morning but since this is a long holiday weekend I will most likely not post
anything before Tuesday. September and life is returning to OZ normal.

In our
troubled world the Russians one days call an incursion of their troops into the
Ukraine a “mistake”; didn’t know where the border was. Two days later artillery
and armored units enter across a previous quiet area and of course it is the
rebels who are firing the guns.

The Ukraine
will not be the straw that breaks and starts a multination war. Another tinder
box, Georgia is applying for European Union membership and with it NATO
affiliation. There or in the Baltic States will be the match that starts the
conflagration. Some have thought it would be Belarus but that landlocked
country already has close ties with Putin’s Russia.

Elsewhere Israel and Hamas have agreed
to an indefinite ceasefire. Hamas has indicated that it will pursue its
objective to the last Gazan. It will not retract its avowed aim to destroy
Israel. Hamas broke again the last 72 hour ceasefire 8 hours early with a barrage
of missiles, some aimed a Tel Aviv and the Ben Gurion Airport. Other rockets did hit a kibbutz and Ashkelon
killing among other a young boy.

Hopefully the last Israel
response will convince Hamas to let the Palestine Authority negotiate and
manage a peace in Gaza.

The ISIS horror continues and
although the President has started surveillance flights over Syria, members of
Congress are now making it a political issue by insisting on curbing Obama’s
powers and that Congress must be the one to initiate any military action.

Despite all this the world will
still be here Monday so have a safe wonderful Labor Day weekend.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Too much of my free time has been taken up with a dialog
with a commentator to my blog “JUSTICE”. I was
tempted to copy all and use it as the basis for this posting, but decided if
you had any interest you could read that blog.

Therefor today’s blog will be a little bit of potpourri; a
little bit of knowledge that will not affect any of our lives but I would bet
that none of you know that there are still Chaldeans (Babylonians) and
Assyrians living in this world.

Believe it or not the Yazidis are not the only religious
sect in Kurdish Iraq that are endangered by ISIS. Both groups are Christians
although they belong to separate churches. The Assyrian Catholic Church is oriented
towards the Antiochian tradition, whereas the Chaldean Catholic Church along
with the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of India follow what is known as the
East-Syrian tradition. Neither recognizes the Pope as their head.

Their worshipers claim direct descendancy from the ancient
inhabitants of the Fertile Crescent.

ISIS with its advanced around Mosul has already given those who had not been able to flee a "Convert within 24 hours or Die ultimatum. In one village they killed all the men and enslaved the women and children.

This info is from a letter printed last week in either the Times or WSJ.

About Me

Over aged, Trying to be "the last angry man".about any and all improprieties of stated interest.For some unknown reason has been listed for years in various editions of "Who's Who"(America, World, Science)
I deny any responsibility for typos, spelling and poor punctuation. Hunt and peck has it faults. Speech transcribing does not seem to be the answer.
Enjoying a second career as a self appointed advocate for the public vz local government excesses.